Calling all ghouls, ghosts, and hopeless romantics! Join us at The Frida Cinema on Sunday, November 8th, for a spooky celebration of Tim Burton and Mike Johnson’s Corpse Bride, presented by our pals at FanMail Cinema Club!
In a gloomy Victorian village where arranged marriages are the norm, nervous groom-to-be Victor Van Dort (Johnny Depp) accidentally proposes to the wrong bride…and she just happens to be dead! Swept into the underworld by the ghostly and gorgeous Emily (Helena Bonham Carter), Victor finds himself caught between the drab world of the living and a fantastical land of the dead that might just have more life in it.
The festivities kick off when doors open at 12:00PM, with vendors set up in the parklet and outside the theater on both sides of the entrance. Strike a pose at our photo-op inside the auditorium before the main event: a cosplay contest just before the film starts at 1:00PM!
Whether you’re Team Victor, Team Emily, or simply here for Danny Elfman’s unforgettable music, come dressed to impress in your finest gothic wedding attire.
Tickets to this event are $20. Frida Cinema member discounts and comp passes do not apply.
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You can’t run from who you are.
Our first Volunteer of the Month pick for October 2026 comes courtesy of Dorian, who has Luca Guadagnino’s cannibalistic road trip movie, Bones and All! Â
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.
With Taylor Russell delivering a heartbreaking performance alongside TimothĂ©e Chalamet, Mark Rylance, and Michael Stuhlbarg, Guadagnino turns cannibalism into an unexpectedly tender metaphor, culminating in one of the oddest films of his career. Which, if you know his work, is really saying something!Â
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If you can’t meet your perfect boyfriend…make him.
Our second Volunteer of the Month pick for October 2026 comes courtesy of Tessa, who has chosen Lisa Frankenstein, one of the 2020s most exciting new cult classics!
Lisa (Kathryn Newton) is having a rough time. She’s stuck in a miserable home life, haunted by the memory of her late mother, and nursing a crush on a handsome corpse buried in the local cemetery. Then, after a freak electrical storm, that corpse comes back to life…and suddenly Lisa’s dream date is six feet under and very much ready to fall in love.
From writer Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body) and director Zelda Williams, Lisa Frankenstein is a neon-soaked tribute to ’80s teen romance, gothic horror, and everything between. Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse make for an unlikely and irresistibly strange couple as Lisa’s quest for love turns into a very unconventional resurrection romance.
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Get ready to shake what you’ve got as present a limited run of Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!
Haru (Rinko Kikuchi) and Luis (Alejandro Edda) are passionate competitors on Tokyo’s ballroom dance scene, but when tragedy strikes, Haru retreats from the dance floor and into herself. With some encouragement from her friends, she returns to the studio and finds herself drawn to a new instructor (Alberto Guerra), forcing her to confront the possibility of moving forward.
Directed by Josef Kubota Wladyka (Tokyo Vice) and winner of the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at Sundance, Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! is a wildly stylish drama with just a little bit of magical realism. At the center of it all is Rinko Kikuchi, giving Haru a performance that can move from heartbreak to hilarity in the blink of an eye.
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Love that burns fast but lasts forever.
Our Heist Hallucinations pick for November is Leos Carax’s 1986 exquisitely stylized sophomore feature, Mauvais Sang!
Two aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit their recently deceased partner’s son to help them break into a laboratory and steal the vaccine against STBO, a sexually transmitted disease that is sweeping the country. It’s spread by having sex without emotional involvement, and most of its victims are teenagers who make love out of curiosity rather than commitment.
A dazzling genre-mash of neo-noir, science fiction, crime, and doomed romance that’s anchored by unforgettable performances from Denis Lavant, Juliette Binoche, and Michel Piccoli, Mauvais Sang announced Carax as one of the most audacious voices of the French cinema of the 1980s.Â
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Set sail for Muppet mayhem as we continue our tribute to beloved character actor and all-around icon Tim Curry with a special 30th anniversary run of Muppets Treasure Island!Â
The story follows young Jim Hawkins and his two best friends, Gonzo and Rizzo, as they embark on a voyage across the high seas in search of buried treasure, but soon find that not everyone onboard can be trusted.
But we’re here to celebrate Tim Curry, one of the most endlessly entertaining performers to ever grace the silver screen. With any role that he touched, Curry could turn even the most ridiculous role into something unforgettable. His gleefully villainous turn as Long John Silver is one of his great comedic showcases. Don’t miss it on the big screen with fellow Muppet fans!Â
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The penultimate film in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series is Joyland, Saim Sadiq’s tender, quietly radical portrait of family and the complicated ways we perform the roles society gives us.
Haider lives with his wife and extended family in Lahore, where everyone seems to have a carefully prescribed role, especially the men. When Haider secretly takes a job as a backup dancer for an erotic theater troupe, he meets Biba, a magnetic transgender performer, and the two begin a relationship that forces Haider to confront desires he has spent his life suppressing. Meanwhile, the women in his family are struggling under their own impossible expectations, creating a portrait of a household where everyone is searching for some kind of freedom.
With Joyland, Sadiq brings an extraordinary tenderness to a story about a family in contemporary Pakistan. Sensual without being sensationalistic and heartbreaking without ever losing its warmth, the film became the first Pakistani film selected for the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Queer Palm. At its heart, Joyland is about what happens when the life you’re expected to want collides with the life you secretly desire. We think it’s one of the best films of the 2020s, and a perfect fit for this series!
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As we turn the corner towards the end of our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series, we’re celebrating one of the essential voices of contemporary queer cinema with a double feature from French filmmaker Céline Sciamma: Water Lilies + Tomboy.
Sciamma’s debut feature, Water Lilies, plunges into the charged world of teenage desire, where a sexual awakening can feel impossibly intense. When Marie befriends Floriane, the star of a local synchronized swimming team, she becomes fascinated by her new friend, even as Floriane’s complicated relationship with her own sexuality begins to blur the boundaries between admiration and desire.
Then, in Tomboy, Sciamma turns her gaze toward gender identity through the eyes of a ten-year-old child. After moving to a new neighborhood, Laure introduces herself to the other children as “Michaël,” beginning to navigate friendships, play, and first love while keeping her secret from her family. What begins as a simple childhood game gradually becomes a tender exploration of discovering who you might be.
Long before Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Sciamma was already making some of the most quietly radical films about queer desire and identity. This double feature is an exemplary early showcase of her extraordinary talent.
There will be a 10 minute intermission between the movies. One ticket gets you access to both films.
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For the next film in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series, we’re looking through the eyes of a filmmaker who brought her own cultural experience to a story about family, identity, and falling in love: Alice Wu’s Saving Face.
Wil is a successful young surgeon living in New York’s tight-knit Chinese-American community, where her single life is already a source of concern for her traditional mother. But when her mother unexpectedly becomes pregnant and is sent to live with Wil, the pressure to maintain the family’s reputation only intensifies. Then Wil meets Vivian, a beautiful and openly queer ballet dancer, and finds herself falling in love, forcing her to choose between the expectations placed upon her and the life she actually wants.
Drawing from her own experiences as a queer Chinese-American woman, Alice Wu’s Saving Face is a deeply personal romantic comedy about the complicated ways sexuality shape who we allow ourselves to become. With its charming performances and refusal to choose between cultural tradition and queer identity, Wu created a film that understands that sometimes the hardest person to come out to is yourself.
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Just added: film critic and author Alonso Duralde will be joining us for the 8:00PM screening on November 9th to introduce the film and sign copies of his book Hollywood Pride!
Few filmmakers have embraced queer desire with as much style, humor, and glorious melodrama as Pedro AlmodĂłvar. So of course we had to include his work in our Art House 101: Global Queer Cinema series! We’ve played the hits before, so now we’re diving headfirst into one of his earliest and most deliriously queer films: Law of Desire.
Pablo Quintero is a successful filmmaker whose latest movie has just premiered to acclaim, but his personal life is considerably less orderly. His former lover has disappeared from his life, his trans sister Tina is dealing with her own complicated romantic history, and a handsome young admirer named Antonio has become dangerously obsessed with him. When Pablo rejects Antonio’s advances, desire quickly curdles into jealousy…and so much more.
Made just a few years after Spain emerged from Franco’s dictatorship, Law of Desire finds AlmodĂłvar throwing open the doors to a world of queer sexuality, gender fluidity, artistic ambition, and unapologetic excess. Anchored by unforgettable performances from Eusebio Poncela, Carmen Maura, and Antonio Banderas, the film is a feverishly funny and dare we say…very sexy. Don’t miss your chance to see it on the big screen!
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